Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-12-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
People to whom revenge is sweet are
apt to bite off more than they can chew.
A law in Germany prohibits the use
of tobacco by boys under eighteen years
of age.
The thing some women always seem
to know best is how other women
ought to dress.
, A man who makes it his business to
talk about the faults of Others is gen.
orally guilty of greater ones himself
Deer are doing so much damage to
the crops in Grass Valley, Cal, that In
dams are employed to guard, the fields
by night and day.
We don't see how existence can have
any charm for an idle man. The only
way to maintain an interest in life is to
participate in its labors and struggles.
An exchange gives good recipe for
shortening long winter:-Give a note
for 500 due in 80 days, and the winter
will go so quickly that you will not need
an overcoat.
They do get little Michigan venison
out of the state III spite of the new
ironclad law. y Wisconsin hunter
took home handsome buck from the
upper peninsula by putting the carcass
into coffin labeled "John Deer, aged
II, deceased" However he had to buy
lirst-class ticket for Mr.. Deer's re-
mains.
Parents and others who punish chill
dren by boxing their ears should be
punished themselves for resorting to
such cruelty. a recent investigation
Of medical records reveals lifty-one
cases Of serious injury to children from
boxing or cutting OIL the ear---in some
cases chronic, and ultimately resulting
in fatal brain disease, deafness, insanity
etc.
The repeated thefts of candies, by
some unknown party, so disturbed a
confectioner in Newport, England, that
he set watch to discover the rogue.
One night form resembling that of a
boy was seen stealthily creeping along
the roof of the adjoining bakehouse.
No attention was paid to cries to come
down, and after gun was fired dead
monkey rolled off the roof.
a smooth-faced old soldier, named
James Fisher, recently applied for adj
mission to the Dayton Soldiers Home,
alleging that he was unable to support
himself. His discharge papers were all
right and so was his war record, and he
was sent to the Home, where examina-
ton showed that Fisher was woman,
who had successfully concealed her
identity through the war and ever
since.
A door for use in theaters and other
public edifces which is intended to
lessen the chances of accident in time
of panic. has been invented by All Eng
lish locksmith. From the outside it
can only be opened by key; but
slight pressure from the inside forces
the door to swing outward. A number
of these doors in theaters and public
halls, to be used only in cases of emer-
gency, would give to the audiences a
feeling of safety that is not now gener-
ally possessed.
Gentlemen" said the Judge of an
Arkansas court to the attorneys during
trial. 81 don't mind your shooting at
each other occasionally if circum-
stances seem to justify it, but / see that
one of your bullets has hit an overcoat
belonging to the court and broken a
quart flask in the inside pocket. l
wish it distinctly understood that if
there is any more such careless shooting
in this court I'll lift the scalp of the
galoot that does it. Now go ahead
with the case.-EX
Agent Childs, of the American pa
tent lock oyster company, is in Detroit
pushing new kind of oyster. Each
oyster is provided with wire muzzle
so that it cannot open its mouth.
These muzzles are put on each bivalve
as soon as it is taken out OF the water
The original oyster juice is thus pre-
vented from running out and the oyster
will keep alive and as good as new i'll
side its shell for three months. When
the muzzle is taken off and the oyster
opened it tastes as fresh as il it had
just been raked out of the water.
Oysters muzzled in May will last
through June, July and August, in
which months an oyster famine has
heretofore ragged
WANTED--Lady or gentleman to can